Collegium Vocale Gent
Collegium Vocale Gent (or Ghent) was among the earliest groups of the historical-performance practice trend to apply Baroque performance treatments to vocal music. The best-known and most successful of several ensembles named "Collegium Vocale," the group from Ghent is noted for its readings of music from the Baroque and Renaissance. However, the Collegium's repertoire stretches forward through the Classical and Romantic periods and even into new music. Under the direction of founder and artistic director Philippe Herreweghe, the Collegium has issued more than 100 albums and has collaborated with many leading modern- and historical-performance ensembles. The group celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2020 with a box set collection and issued a recording of Monteverdi's Fourth Book of Madrigals in 2022.
Collegium Vocale was founded in 1970 by Herreweghe and several classmates while attending the University of Ghent. A scholar of Baroque performance practices, Herreweghe initiated the ensemble to apply methods that were being used by instrumental ensembles in the growing historical-instrument movement to vocal music. Collegium Vocale is a flexible ensemble that has its own accompanying orchestra when needed, depending on the music being performed. The music of the German Baroque, especially Bach, has been a specialty of the ensemble from its early days, but its flexibility allows for the performance of music from the Renaissance (Gesualdo, Monteverdi), Classical (Mozart, Haydn), Romantic (Beethoven, Brahms), and even as far forward as Stravinsky and oratorios by contemporary composers.
Herreweghe's approach to performance with Collegium Vocale was noticed early on by such luminaries as Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Gustav Leonhardt, and Ton Koopman. The Collegium was joined by Koopman and his Musica Antiqua of Amsterdam for its debut recording in 1976, taking in Monteverdi's Selva morale e spirituale on the Telefunken label's Das Alte Werk imprint. Following its continued success, Collegium Vocale was invited by Harnoncourt and Leonhardt to perform on their complete recordings of Bach's cantatas. The Collegium continues to frequently appear with original-instrument groups, including the Freiburger Barockorchester and Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, as well as modern-instrument ensembles such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
In 1993, the Collegium and Herreweghe were appointed Cultural Ambassadors of Flanders. Its touring activities have taken it to Asia, Australia, and the Americas, as well as throughout Europe. Collegium Vocale has recorded widely on such labels as Harmonia Mundi, Virgin, and Ricercar, among others. Herreweghe founded the Phi label in 2010, where most of the group's music is now issued. From 2011 to 2013, the Collegium was an Ambassador of the European Union, and since 2017, it has hosted Collegium Vocale Crete Senesi, a summer festival in Tuscany. The group has continued recording prolifically, issuing multiple albums most years. In 2020, the Collegium released a collection of recordings made on Phi in the 2010s to celebrate its 50th anniversary. Following several releases in 2021, including Carlo Gesualdo: Dolcissima mia vita, the Collegium Vocale issued Monteverdi: Anima dolorosa and a 10-disc set of sacred choral works by Bach in 2022.
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Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben - Bach: Cantatas BWV 6-99-147
Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe
Clásica - Editado por Phi el 1 sept. 2023
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Bach : Johannes-Passion, BWV 245
Philippe Herreweghe, Collegium Vocale Gent
Clásica - Editado por Phi el 7 feb. 2020
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Johann Sebastian Bach : Motets (Intégrale)
Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe
Coros sacros - Editado por Phi el 26 may. 2011
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Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45
Clásica - Editado por harmonia mundi el 3 jun. 1996
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Bach: 'Meins Lebens Licht' Cantatas BWV 45-198 & Motet BWV 118
Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe
Clásica - Editado por Phi el 19 mar. 2021
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Bach: Advent Cantatas (Remastered)
Philippe Herreweghe, La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale Gent
Clásica - Editado por harmonia mundi el 1 ago. 1997
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Bach : Leipzig Cantatas BWV 101, 103 & 115
Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe
Cantatas sacras - Editado por Phi el 1 sept. 2017
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Bach: Oster-Oratorium, BWV 249 (2023 Remastered Version)
Philippe Herreweghe, Collegium Vocale Gent
Clásica - Editado por harmonia mundi el 1 feb. 1995
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Joseph Haydn : Die Jahreszeiten (The Seasons / Les Saisons)
Collegium Vocale Gent, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Philippe Herreweghe
Música vocal profana - Editado por Phi el 8 abr. 2014
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Byrd: Infelix ego, Mass for 5 Voices & Motets
Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe
Clásica - Editado por Phi el 3 nov. 2014
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Tomas Luis de Victoria : Officium Defunctorum
Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe
Clásica - Editado por Phi el 15 may. 2012
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Bach : Sonn und Schild. Cantatas BWV 4, 79, 80
Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe
Cantatas sacras - Editado por Phi el 21 sept. 2018
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Orff: Carmina Burana (Cantiones profanae)
Anima Eterna, Collegium Vocale Gent, Jos Van Immerseel
Clásica - Editado por Zig-Zag Territoires el 21 oct. 2014
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Dvořák: Requiem, Op. 89
Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe
Misas, Pasiones, Réquiems - Editado por Phi el 23 mar. 2015
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Bach: Missa in h-moll
Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe
Clásica - Editado por Phi el 24 ene. 2012
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Ludwig van Beethoven : Missa solemnis
Collegium Vocale Gent, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Philippe Herreweghe
Clásica - Editado por Phi el 6 nov. 2012
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Bach: Mass in B Minor (Véronique Gens - Christoph Prégardien - Hanno Müller-Brachmann - Collegium Vocale Gent - Philippe Herreweghe)
Philippe Herreweghe, Collegium Vocale Gent
Clásica - Editado por harmonia mundi el 31 jul. 2007
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Bach: Motetten, BWV 225-230
Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe
Clásica - Editado por Phi el 26 may. 2011
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Bach: Christmas Cantatas (Remastered)
Philippe Herreweghe, La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale Gent
Clásica - Editado por harmonia mundi el 1 sept. 1996
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Johann Sebastian Bach : Ich elender Mensch & Leipzig Cantatas (BWV 44, 48, 73, 109)
Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe
Cantatas sacras - Editado por Phi el 20 dic. 2013
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Johannes Brahms : Œuvres pour chœur & orchestre
Ann Hallenberg, Collegium Vocale Gent, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Philippe Herreweghe
Clásica - Editado por Phi el 10 nov. 2011
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